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Data Management > Data Backup
Everyone knows that business data MUST be backed up. But “how” and “where” are two very large unknowns! The first question to ask is, “What is the cost to your business if the data is not sufficiently protected?”
These are the next questions that MUST be asked when considering a back-up solution:
- Actual back-up completed
- Is the task a manual or auto task?
- Is the data actually being transferred?
- Is the CORRECT data being transferred?
- Back-up data security
- Who has access to the data?
- Is it encrypted?
- Are there legislative and/or industry privacy or security requirements?
- Back-up data safety
- Is the data stored on media which is not incorporated in the server?
- Does the back-up offer protection from virus damage?
- Is the media safe from fire, flood, theft (The Big 3)?
- Is it stored in a separate location from the server?
- Is the media transported safely?
- ABILITY TO RESTORE
- Is the data in a format that can be restored with or without the original software?
- Can the data be selectively restored? (individual records, items, etc.)
- Are there incremental restore points?
- Cost
- Initial (set-up) cost
- On-going costs (monthly fees, media, etc.)
- LOSS OF DATA (what is the cost of NOT having the correct solution?)
You (we) need to decide how important each of these concerns are to you, and determine the best solution which fits in your budget. Again, the biggest question of all is, “What is the cost to your business if the data is not sufficiently protected?”
Automated Remote Backup Solutions
Here are the primary advantages of automated remote, off-site data back-up versus on-site:
- It’s off-site. This means that you are covered for the big 3 – fire, flood, and theft. This is worth a significant portion of your cost, as far as the value to your business goes.
- It is managed by a professional data storage company. This means that you don’t have to do anything. Period. It all happens automatically, ELIMINATING HUMAN ERROR. And if you ever need to restore data, you simply call them. You don’t have to go rummaging through tapes or looking through hours and hours of file listings.
- The data is 100% secure through the encryption algorithm used. No Privacy or security issues.
- There is no media to fuss with – no changing tapes, plugging or unplugging drives, no hauling tapes or drives home, risking damage, loss, or theft.
- This is a “live” back-up, not a once-a-day or week batch. The back-up is current. As we look at back-up alternatives, we must always remember that the greater security, flexibility, and reliability we enjoy with the solution, the greater the cost.
DCMS Data Backup
DCMS provides off-site backup services for all types and volumes of data. We back up accounting, manufacturing, scheduling, human resource management, CRM, and system data, such as Exchange and Active Directory.
DCMS’s Backup Software offers you fast, granular backup and recovery of distributed heterogeneous environments. With DCMS, policy-based actions can be enforced across all of your operating environments, applications and storage networks. Unlike other solutions, DCMS addresses storage resources and data as logical entities rather than physical resources. Client data is logically mapped to storage resources (called “Storage Policies”), which eliminates administrators’ need to identify the physical location of data before it can be restored.
You have a number of choices for your offsite office data backup; it has become a new “Must Have” for all businesses like yours. The understanding of why we should all keep a backup of our data in another location is well established. However, the way that data is stored and how it gets to and from the storage facility is another matter. As with everything, there are different levels of quality, offsite data backup is no exception to this rule.
Your data is the lifeblood of your business and without it, your business can’t function. Do not leave something as important as this to chance or an inferior product. You wouldn’t go to a dentist who has only half the pain killing tools of another to fix your teeth; you know you could be in for a lot of pain.
The DCMS Data Offsite Backup solution has all of the pain killing tools and more to make your offsite backup painless. So, what is the difference, how is DCMS Offsite Backup different and why should you care? Compare the following chart and see the difference.
| Feature |
Competition |
DCMS |
| Security (end to end very high strength data encryption) 1 |
No |
Yes |
| Secure data Vault 2 |
No |
Yes |
| High speed data link, up and down 3 |
No |
Yes |
| Accessibility 24/7/365 |
Yes |
Yes |
| Regulatory compliance |
No |
Yes |
| Geographical isolation 4 |
No |
Yes |
| Ease of use |
Yes |
Yes |
| Granular user access security |
No |
Yes |
| Intelligent data backup 5 |
No |
Yes |
| All revisions of a file are restorable |
No |
Yes |
| “Bare Metal” restore 6 |
No |
Yes |
| Laptop data backup and restore from anywhere in the world 7 |
Partial |
Yes |
| Multiple file revision restore |
No |
Yes |
| Ability to securely restore a file without IT intervention 8 |
No |
Yes |
- World class very high strength data encryption from your server or desktop, all the way to our data storage vault and back again
- Redundant electrical power and A/C, redundant network connectivity, excellent physical security
- 10MB up and down (backup and restore)
- Not subject to conditions local to data source (earthquake, tornado, flooding etc)
- Only that part of the data that has changed is backed up, not the whole file each time.
- Full OS and data restore to raw hardware
- Hotel, vacation etc access
- Individuals can be given secure access to restore their own files without the aid of the IT department, saving time and money
We have packages for every budget in every industry. |
